Supplier Development Engineer

Caterpillar; Santa Catarina; Presencial; MXN 1,101,000 - 1,652,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading global manufacturing company is seeking a Supplier Development Engineer to ensure supplier quality and compliance. This role is based in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, focusing on Machined SBQ, Rods, and Tubes, enhancing operational excellence. Responsibilities include monitoring supplier defect rates, conducting assessments, and collaborating with customers. Applicants should have a relevant degree and advanced English proficiency. This position requires up to 30% travel. Relocation and visa sponsorship are not available.

Formación

• Advanced proficiency in English required.
• Strong reading, writing, and verbal communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• Ensure quality of supplies through inspections and testing.
• Monitor supplier defect rates and generate quality reports.
• Research and assess potential suppliers through audits.
• Support suppliers in performance improvement.
• Collaborate with customers to develop new sources.

Conocimientos

Effective Communications

Problem Solving

Process Improvement

Quality Orientation

Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

Educación

Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related degree

Descripción del empleo

Career Area

Procurement

Job Description

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Role Definition

As part of the Steel Components Mexico team, the Supplier Development Engineer will focus on Machined SBQ, Rods and Tubes, ensuring supplier quality and compliance with manufacturing and legal standards. The role supports business localization in Mexico and drives supplier performance improvement to enhance operational excellence and competitiveness.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality of MSBQ, Rods and Tubes supplies through inspections, testing, and evaluation mechanisms.
• Monitor supplier defect rates and generate quality reports; guide suppliers in reducing defects and improving consistency.
• Research and assess potential suppliers, including audits of their manufacturing practices to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
• Support suppliers in performance improvement through process optimization, control implementation, and quality assurance planning.
• Collaborate with customers to develop new sources and support the introduction of new products aligned with business localization strategies.

Degree Requirement

A Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering or related degree is required.

Qualifications

Advanced proficiency in English is required, including strong reading, writing, and verbal communication skills.

What skills you must have

Effective Communications

• Makes oral presentations and writes reports needed for own work.
• Delivers helpful feedback that focuses on behaviors without offending the recipient.
• Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
• Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.

Problem Solving

• Identifies and documents specific problems and resolution alternatives.
• Examines a specific problem and understands the perspective of each involved stakeholder.
• Develops alternative techniques for assessing accuracy and relevance of information.
• Helps to analyze risks and benefits of alternative approaches and obtain decision on resolution.
• Uses fact‑finding techniques and diagnostic tools to identify problems.

Process Improvement

• Defines the critical workflow for executing key processes.
• Identifies process problems that limit performance.
• Implements methods for improving and establishing controls for critical processes.
• Focuses on the most significant problems to maximize efficiency gains.
• Surfaces systemic problems to be addressed at the organizational level.

Quality Orientation

• Confronts root causes of problems wherever they exist.
• Eliminates unnecessary work and all non value‑added activities.
• Uses objective quality criteria and data to drive decisions.
• Documents learnings regarding quality outcomes so that the data can be used for improvement.
• Surfaces quality problems whose root causes fall outside the group's responsibility.

Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)

• Assists in documenting common issues and challenges related to PPAP.
• Follows internal best practices, guidelines, and procedures while implementing PPAP.
• Implements standard processes to get the required approvals for a new part/product and ensure that it meets the quality standards and customer expectations.
• Researches on ways to apply PPAP across different industries.
• Works to complete all the PPAP elements required for final production design.

Supplier Evaluations and Certification

• Documents and pursues results of reference calls or other sources for a specific supplier.
• Participates in selecting and certifying a specific supplier and/or product.
• Assists with the steps and procedures for supplier certification.
• Researches several types of sources of information for a supplier's or a product's reputation.
• Assesses a product or service using pre‑defined evaluation criteria.

Additional Information

On‑site work based in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León.

Travel Requirement: Availability to travel up to 30% of the time. International and domestic travel.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.

Final details

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Posting Dates

noviembre 25, 2025 - diciembre 2, 2025

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply

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